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the feede made into powder, and mixed with the yolke of an egge, and feme whcate flower macfe into a caki 
and baked, either in an oven, or betweene a couple of tyles heated for the purpofe, this cake prepared every da! 
frelb and eaten warme for fome few dayes together, doth mightily flay any fluxe of the ftomacke, when thi 
tneate pafleth away indigefted, and ftayeth likewife the vomitings of the (lomacke: the herbe, but efpecially hi 
feede which is o( more fubtile parts, is likewife held to be profitable againft the dropfie, the falling fickneffe 
ycl low jaundife, and the oppilations or ftoppings of the liver or reines: the rootes of Plantane and Pellitorv oi 
beaten to powder and put into hollow teeth, taketh away the paines in them : the clarified h lice, or thd 
diltilled water but efpecially that ofRibbewort, dropped into the eyes cooleth the inflammations in them and 
certamely cureth the pmne and webbe in the eye, and dropped into the eares, eafeth the paines therein, and hel- 
peth and refloreth the hearing: the fame alfo is very profitably applied, with juice of Houfleeke againft all in 
(laminations and eruptions m the skinne, and againft burnings or fealdirgs by fire or water; the /nice or the dL 
coblion made either of it felfe, or with other things conducing thereunto, is alotion of much ufe and good effeftfi 
for old or hollow ulcers that are hard to be cured, for cancres and fores in the mouth, or privie parts of man or 
woman, and hclpeth alfo the paines or the hemorrhoides or piles,and the fundament: the/nice mixed with oylel 
of Roles and the temples and forehead annomted hterewith, eafeth the paines of the head proceeding from heate i 
and helpeth franticke and lunaticke perfons very much, as alfo the bitings of Serpents, or a madde Dogge- the' 
tame alfo is profitably applied to all hot gouts in the feete or hands,efpecially in the beginning, to coole the heate • 
and repreffe the humours; it is alfo good to be applied where any bone is out of joint, to hinder inflammations!, 
dwellings, and paines, that prelently rife thereupon: the powder of the dried leaves taken in drinke, killeth the 
wormesofthe belly, and the faid dried leaves boiled in wine, killeth the wormes that breedc in old and foulei 
“ “7 (m! 1C par n° f Pl .’ ntane water and two parts of the brine of powdred beefe boyled together and clarified, is 
rhTnV 1 n 7 u° h u a C 3 CP read " , g fcabbcs and ln the head or body, all manner of tetters, ringwormes** 
O heaTetn 3 u other ttinningnnd fretting fores: Br.efely, all the Plantanes are lingular good wound herbev 
a"”,'-'or old wounds and lores, either inward or outward. Er„fmm iuhis C »//» f *4 reportetha pretties! 
freed from that dan W er° bel " S ft ™ S “ b “ Kn by * Sp!der ’ f ° U§ht Flantanc ’ and b V the eat “’S thereof was : 
Chap. XII. 
Ho loft e umfive Plant ago marina. Sea PlantaneJ 
”Tfi r r n ma f"g r me 0th n r ^ s ,°? crbe , s re , f 7 red 10 the pla «tanes, which /hall follow in their order, 
and firft of thofe are called HoloBea, which for want of a fitter name we call .Tea Plantane. 
~ 1 • Plmtago murimt vulgarii. Ordinary Sea Plantane. 
J n „“ Planta " e hatl ? mar, y narrow long and thicke greene leaves having here and there a dent of ■ 
head thereonfoaftrr rh,nPl ^ ^ \" d ' a ™ng which1 rife up fundry bare ftalkes.with a /mail fpiked 
he d thereon (mailer than Plantane, elfe alike both in blooming and feeder therooteis fomewhat white thicke 
and long with long fibres thereat abiding many yeares. jumewnat wrote tnicKe 
or*• H'loftamSatomicuH. 
Ordinary Sea plantane. spawjj Sea Plantane. 
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